Rizal Philippines
December 15, 2015
Comparison of Fortunner and Montero Sports gas and brake pedal
Lately there was a lot of bad publicity on Mitsubishi Montero's SUA (Sudden Unintended Acceleration) likened to some American Cars. The complaint has been aired in TV interviews. It was featured at Rappler and discussed by Top Gear.
Top Gear Is John Chua, a blogger allegedly representing Montero owners who experienced SUA, real?
Top Gears full discussion on SUA
Do you believe the accusation of Montero SUA is real or drivers error?
" From the Montero Sport's launch in 2008 until July 2015, the Philippines sold a total of 79,000 units. All the other countries, meanwhile, moved a combined total of 235,000 units.
So let me get this straight: Out of a grand total of 314,000 sold units--all made in Thailand, except for recent units manufactured in Russia--the Philippines had the incredible misfortune of getting ALL the defective units. And to make this misfortune even worse, said defect can neither be diagnosed nor fixed.
Equally amazing is the fact that even in our market, only the Montero Sport is affected by this problem. How come the Strada isn't, when the two are mechanically identical? And how come only automatic-transmission units suffer from the "defect"? If the engines of AT Montero Sport units have this tendency to accelerate on their own, why not the very same engines shoehorned into manual-transmission units?
It's interesting to note that AT units are far more popular in our market, outselling MT units 60,000 to 19,000. Think about that.
The reality is that either elderly or inexperienced drivers not used to driving automatic often commit pedal misapplication--stepping on the gas pedal when they really meant to hit the brakes. They usually panic when they hear and feel the engine revving, and then unwittingly depress the throttle even more.
You'll argue: If all of this isn't true, then why did Mitsubishi equip the all-new Montero Sport with a pair of safety technologies called Ultrasonic Misacceleration Mitigation System and Forward Collision Mitigation System? Like I said in a previous article, it's to protect the Japanese carmaker from allegations of sudden unintended acceleration, and to protect incompetent drivers from themselves.
Let me end this by sharing this photo with you:
This was sent to us by a guy named Czeon Santos. These are his exact words: "Automatic daw po yung kotse. Nalito po yata yung driver."
Oh, that's not a Montero Sport, by the way. There are customer complaints and actual cases, but investigators could not find anything wrong with the cars engine, brakes, nor electronics. Some call for experts to give light on this problem. Or these are cases of guys/drivers not familiar with AT? Or blaming the manufacturer for their own lack of DQ (Drivers Quotient - Drivers Proficiency?)
P.S
I was talking to a vehicle expert and who used to operate a car repair shop and I asked his opinion on this. He said that electronics could possibly be wrong. There is all ready quite a number of reported accidents. And they are not likely to make a fool out of themselves
